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...More Things Change ... Re "How the Taliban Thrives" [Sept. 7]: Our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is comparable to placing one's hand in a pail of water. When you stick your hand into the water, you create an effect. When you pull it out, the water returns to its original state. While we occupy those countries, we suffer casualties and financial disaster. Once we leave, everything will return to the way it was before: tribal wars, traditions and culture. We will have accomplished nothing. You cannot change thousand-year-old cultures into democratic states in a few years...
...been consistently opposed by sections of India's political and scientific community ever since it was proposed in 1999. Critics question the logic of a country battling dire poverty spending millions of dollars on scientific pursuits that they liken to reinventing the wheel. They said the ISRO should stick to socially relevant research as it did after its establishment in 1969: launching satellites for landscape and resource mapping, weather forecasting, or communications and educational broadcasts...
...that reason society ought to be like that, is flawed. Because nature is not like that. If you look at our close relatives, you see animals who survive by cooperating. Yes, there is competition. There is dominance, hierarchy. They sometimes fight. They sometimes even kill each other. But they stick together because they survive together much better than alone...
...remaining in the role of chief of staff—after all, Forst had selected her for the position, and she wanted the incoming executive vice president to do the same. She said, “I didn’t think it made much sense for me to stick around and wait, and say, ‘Would this work or not?’”Gorodentsev’s vocational limbo came at an opportune moment for Sweet. When Gorodentsev asked the finance guru how she could assist him in light of his impending departure, Sweet?...
...would likely be felt at the polls. Of course, that reality creates its own complications; if the party has little choice but to pass the bill by itself, progressives have even less patience for producing the kind of centrist bill that Baucus has been pushing. But Dems will probably stick with a centrist bill because no one builds majorities from the extreme left or right, and the holy grail(s) are those independent voters who sit smack in the middle. A CNN poll earlier this month found that for the first time, a majority of independents, 53%, disapproved of Obama...